With Steelhead Mobile, we can empower our mobile workers with huge productivity gains. Now if they are working at a hotel or at a job site, they can get LAN-like access to all of the important data they need to get the job done properly

What Can You Save? What Can You Gain?

IDC conducted detailed interviews with nine organizations to understand the impact of optimizing the delivery of business applications with Riverbed SteelHead.

IDC calculates that organizations will realize benefits worth an average of $27,014 per 100 users ($7.23 million per organization) per year over three years, which translates to a projected three-year return on investment (ROI) of 497%.

Dudek is a California-focused environmental firm with more than 300 planners, scientists, civil engineers, contractors, and support staff. Since 1980, the firm has provided its clients with environmental, permitting, planning, engineering, construction, and operational services.

The use of Riverbed technologies has helped us tap into new markets and new geographic areas. The consolidation and availibility of data from virtually anywhere enables our practice builders to more efficiently pursue new opportunities and resources.Abe Esguerra, IT Director, Dudek

Consulting Firm Improves Performance over the WAN for Branch Offices and Mobile Workiers

JEO Consulting Group, Inc. brought in Steelhead appliances to help them effectively collaborate over their existing WAN. The result was better collaboration across their entire organization.

In the past, downloading a 110-megabyte project folder from home on a DSL connection could take about 60 minutes. With Steelhead Mobile, I can complete that transfer in about a minute and a half. Not only that, some of our users are seeing as much as 75% less data going over their Internet connection. That really makes it possible to work productively over a home DSL line or a hotel Wi-Fi connection.Travis Klasna, IT Manager, JEO

Riverbed helps global manufacturing company scale its business and take central control

Roxtec manufactures cable and pipe sealing solutions for industries including marine and offshore, telecom, energy and construction. The company is headquartered in Sweden and has 23 subsidiaries around the world.

Senko Co., Ltd. (Senko) is a logistics company with approximately 400 domestic and 33 overseas locations. Senko provides a variety of services including building efficient logistics systems for supply chain management, outsourcing logistics to save costs, and building logistics systems that accommodate recycling-oriented societies and globalization. It always strives to be the best partner for its customers.

The control screen for the mobile controller is user friendly. We can see the benefits SteelHead Mobile at the individual client PC level and also view asset information. We can predict network issues ahead of time, so we are now able to take preventative measures.Shigeyuki Tanaka, Manager of the Production Management Department, Senko

Branch employees and mobile users at Indian law firm Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas were facing protracted delays in the performance of virtualized applications resulting in a loss of productivity and end-user complaints.

Using Riverbed® SteelHead® to optimize the firm’s hybrid WAN network traffic and accelerate applications dramatically improved the end-user experience, boosting the firm’s overall productivity. Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas is a full service Indian law firm headquartered in New Delhi. It currently has 450 lawyers out of 630 employees and seven offices across the country located in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Gurgaon, Bengaluru and Chennai.

End-user complaints have been drastically reduced at branch offices because all applications are behaving as expected,” he said. “In fact, branch users do not notice any difference or delays in app delivery, even during occasions when bandwidth consumption by users logging in from headquarters goes up.Shams Khan, Head, IT Infrastructure and Information Security, Shardul Amarchand Mangaldas